Jonathan wades into Orient Oil crisis

President Goodluck Jonathan has waded into the crisis which led to two communities in Anambra and Kogi states laying claim to Orient Oil. He commissioned the facility in August this year. Since the commissioning of the first oil refinery built by Orient Petroleum at Aguleri Otu in Anambra East Local Government Area which makes Anambra, an oil producing state, some of her neighbours, including Kogi and Enugu states have been claiming ownership of the well.

The President after meeting with Gov. Peter Obi of Anambra and his Kogi counterpart, Idris Wada, is said to have directed the National Boundary Commission to expedite action and ensure all the matters are resolved early enough to forestall any violence. Speaking to State House correspondents after the meeting, Wada said, “the President has given the necessary directives. We are very happy with the meeting, we are going back very happy to tell our people that Mr. President is handling this matter in an expeditious manner according to laid down procedures and at the end of the day, the matter will be resolved amicably”.

Obi said: “The outcome of the meeting is very amicable. The issues regarding to areas where the oil wells are located will be settled amicably. We will work together as states of this federation”. Wada had in an official statement, said that “Kogi will be a major stakeholder in the refinery, considering the fact that the oil wells that will supply crude to the refinery are in Odeke community in Ibaji Local Government Area of the state.”

The governor was backed by a group called Ibaji Development Association (IDA) which says that oil wells OPL 915 and 916 are located in Kogi, not Anambra State, as claimed by Orient Petroleum which is carrying out exploration in the area. In a message to President Jonathan, the ID had said: “The area where the current productive oil well is located is in Odeke community in Ibaji Local Government Area of Kogi State and not in Anambra state.

“Oil exploration activities leading to the successful access to crude oil were carried out in Kogi State within Odeke, Echeno, Ehile, Anocha and Omabo communities by Orient Petroleum Plc. Workers of this company actually rented houses in these communities as quarters for the final phase 1 of the testing of these wells”, the group had said.

They called on President Jonathan then to officially declare Kogi, an oil producing state, saying, “our non-resistant stance should not be misconstrued to mean cowardice, even in the face of glaring provocation from Anambra State whose communities are already head over heels fighting to corner the benefits of the oil wells that do not belong to them.” But in a broadcast to the people, Gov. Obi had expressed shock over the claims on the oil field discovered in his domain.

Tracing the formation of Orient by Anambra and the efforts of his state so far, he said: “It is pertinent to recall that Orient Petroleum Resources Plc was formed during the Government of Dr. Chinwoke Mbadinuju in 2001 and allocated oil fields domiciled in Anambra State. “The board is peopled by prominent Nigerians of Anambra extraction such as Chief Emeka Anyaoku (Chairman), Dr. Alex Ekwueme (Vice-Chairman) and Chief Arthur Mbanefo, among others.

Its management is led by Engr. Emeka Nwawka, “Though Dr. Mbadinuju did not make any direct monetary contribution, under Dr. Chris Ngige (2003-2006), Anambra State Government invested the sum of N100 million naira in the project. “Under our government (between 2006-2009), Anambra State, with the vision and belief in the positive impact of the project on the economy of the state and country, invested, directly and indirectly, the sum of N4.4 billion, which bolstered the confidence of other investors to invest in the venture that made its commissioning a reality.

“Whilst my predecessors never visited the site, I personally laid the foundation of the refinery. I have also visited the site severally since 2006, without any group or state interfering in its ownership as is now the case following the announcement of drilling of oil there. “It is also pertinent to note that till date, neither the group nor the states laying claim to the oil field have, directly or indirectly, invested a kobo in the project, while Anambra State and her people have invested several billions.

“Let me at this juncture state that Anambra State believes in good neighbourliness and will, in conformity with our nature, always admire and celebrate other states which may become producers of oil or any other mineral resource in the future. However, we believe that people’s hard work, sacrifices and investment should be allowed to match their opportunities. Anambra State will remain a good neighbour and will continue to pray for oil to be discovered in other states so that Nigeria will emerge an economic giant in the comity of nations in the world,” Obi concluded.

The scenerio is a replica of what happened between Akwa Ibom and neighbouring Cross River states since the latter lost ownership of 76 oil wells to the former in a major Supreme Court decision in July. Reports from the National Boundary Commission showed that the boundary between Anambra and Kogi states was last delineated in 1924 , during the colonial era.

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KOGI,WANT TO TRY AGURELE ,MAYBE THEY WANT TO DIE LIKE THEIR FORMER KING ATTA OF IIGALA,WRRE ARE THEM SINCE THEIR BUILDING EVERYTHING ,THEY FOOL S WAS SLEEPING ,NOW THEY REMEMBER THAT THEIR LAND IS THEIR,WECKED COUNTRY

Kogi, the land of my beautiful woman. Please do not get yourself wiped out by the giant Igbo nation. It is funny that for years the exploration was going on we did not ask, what are you guys looking for in my land? or did we? May the non politician intellectuals come out and voice out reason before this one goes too far. Do not give the Igbo reason to revenge their deaths in Nigeria/Biafra war. They are over 1,000,000 of them now in USA alone. They are just too powerful to be messed with.

God has placed us together.Nigeria is one big patriach with many wives and many children.The earlier we learn to love and appreciate each other,the better we will become.God Himself wants us to love one another as ourselves.Give peace a chance.

THE GOOD THING ANAMBRA STATE HAS DONE IS TO BUILD A REFINERY.THERE IS OIL IN COMMERCIAL QUANTITY IN ANAMBRA STATE ESPECIALLY IN ANAMBRA EAST LGA..ORIENT WOULD HAVE STARTED WITH OIL BLOCKS IN ANAMBRA STATE BEFORE GOING TO NEIGHBOURING STATES LIKE KOGI.YOU HAVE OIL BLOCKS IN COMMERCIAL QUANTITY IN AGULERI,UMULERI,NANDO,IGBARIAM,NSUGBE,OGBARU,ANAM INCLUDING MOST AGHAMELUM COMMINUITIES LIKE UMOLUM,OMOR,ANAKU,IGBAKWU,OMASI ,ETC.ORIENT DOES NOT NEED THIS KOGI OUTING FOR NOW INORDER TO AVIOD LEGAL TUSSLE THAT WILL AFFECT SMOOTH TAKE OFF OF THE REFINERY.
PLS IF THE ISSUE STARTS GETTING PROLONGED IN A WAY THAT IT WILL START AFFECTING THE TAKE OFF OF THE ORIENT REFINERY,ORIENT SHOULD PULL OUT THEIR PLATFORM FROM IBAJI IN KOGI STATE AN GO TO OTHER OIL BLOCKS WITHIN ANAMBRA EAST LGA BECAUSE THERE ARE SO MANY OIL BLOCKS IN ANAMBRA EAST LGA.

Gov.Wada is a thief, irresponsible & i can assure him dat they cannot benefit anything from Anambra State.The idiot talking of Kogis to be d major stakeholders in d oil refinary while he was claiming ownership of oil well in Ubaji Kogi,if he is sure to his claims he wudnt have joined kogi tobe d major stakeholders,u simply take what belongs to you.Kogi & Anambra can never own oil togather if dat his plan Wada.Anambra did not stops u and ur pp from building ur refinary in Ubaji being Kogi not Agureli in Anambra.We are aware pp of Kogi are killers and ready to kill at anytime d way they open fire in Deeper life church,we Anambra dose not hav timw for ur trouble,pls be ur own.

@francis ekene, you will know who is a thief, a big fool and irresponsible person if you compare what Gov. Wada said in this write-up to ur senseless comments. Mr. president has mandated NBC to clearify on this issue. Why not let the commission do its work? Why resorting to the use of vulgar language on the gov & the people of the state? I doubt if you are a normal human being! Kogi people, go and find out, are hospitable, peaceful & loving people. War? find out too, Kogi state has never lost in any battle – no be mouth! Please, lets eschew unguarded statements capable of destabilizing our peaceful co-existence & allow the agency do its work. Thank you

Kogi state and enugu state , how do you just wake up from sleep and start claiming something in anambra state . are too lazy to develop your resourses?
It is more honourable to beg than to start laying claims to what you don’t have .go and develop stone and iron refinary or coal refinary ,or has anambra state had to stuggle with you on these resourses.
If you are jelous go on your knees & beg instead of frivolous claim that you know your’re going to loose.

If kogi has oil well let them build their own refinery period! This is how independent power build by victor attah akwa ibom now turn to fed. Govt property distributing light to neibouring states to the detriment of akwa ibomites.

NORTHERN NIGERIA HAVE BEEN PROBLEM TO NDIGBO. THIS ISSUE OF ORIENT OIL WILLBE ANOTHER WAY FOR THE NORTH TO START ATTACKING NDIGBO AGAIN BUT THEY WILL FAIL. IT IS TIME THAT NORTHERN AND WESTERN NIGERIA[ HAUSA-FULANI AND YORUBA] LOOK FOR WAY TO EXPLORE THEIR OWN NATURAL RESOURCES B/C THEY HAVE BEEN PARASITE ON BIAFRA RESOURCES SINCE THE BEGINNING OF BIAFRA/NIGERIA WAR TO TODAY. SINCE THIS WAR FG OF NIGERIA THROUGH HAUSA-FULANI AND YORUBA HAVE FORCEFULLY TAKEN BIAFRA RESOURCES TO DEVELOP LAGOS, IBADAN, ABUJA, KANO, KADUNA AND OTHER PLACES IN NORTHER AND WESTERN NIGERIA WHILE IGBO LAND AND NIGER DELTA REMAIN UNDEVELOPED CAUSING PEOPLE THERE TO BE IN PENURY AND ABJECT POVERTY. TODAY MANY IGBO PEOPLE HAVE TO TRAVEL TO FAR LANDS IN ORDER TO MEET UP. THIS IS UNFAIR. NDIGBO CANNOT CONTINUE TO WITNESS OTHERS FEEDING FAT ON THEIR RESOURCES WHILE THEY ARE SUFFERING. IT IS TIME FOR NDIGBO TO STAND TALL AND SAY ENOUGH IS ENOUGH. FG OF NIGERIA SHOULD GO TO NORTHERN AND WESTERN NIGERIA TO MINE OIL RESOURCES. BIAFRA, NDIGBO AND NIGER DELTA HAVE TRIED FOR HAUSA-FULANI AND YORUBA WHO HAVE BEEN BENEFITING FROM THESE RESOURCES WHILE THE OWNERS ARE IN SERIOUS SUFFERING ESPECIALLY FORM ENVIRONMENTAL DESTRUCTION AND OIL POLLUTION.

Kogi! Kogi!! Kogi!!!,u want to reap were u did not sow abi? Gov. Wada stop dreaming and wake up to reality, or bring a record of how much ur govt has spent that made u to become a major stake holder. If admire something work for it don’t be a spoke in Anambra state’s wheel of progress. Be warned!

The Gov of Kogi and his people have to go back home and let Anambra people be, where are they in 1924 , during the colonial era. when the Idigo of Aguleri and their stupid father Ata of Igala did the boundary adjustment between Anambra and Kogi? why can’t you people rejoices with the Anambra and pray one day you will have your own, greed set of people,

Obi try to concnentrate on the case at hand. Stop using personal sentiment to criticize ur predecessor. Because he is a nataniel obi has to hold on his predecesor for then to show him the map and boundaries of Anambra b4 embacking on projects.

I cannot just understand the type of stupid and childish noise Nigerian states make regarding mined commodities like petroleum and related underground natural resources. Let’s suppose for a moment that the present oil wells are actually located in Kogi State and, possibly, Enugu State, what stops the three states from sitting down together as neighbours and agree on the modality for sharing this resource? Anambra has already invested a lot of money into this venture and there is no way the other two states can just rout Anambra from the scene; it would be stupid and foolhardy. In legal terms Kogi and Enugu States should remember the principle of adverse possession as it affects land. Enugu and Kogi cannot claim ignorance of what Anambra had been doing all these long years on a land Enugu and Kogi felt belonged to them. In law Enugu and Kogi should have come out immediately to establish their right of claim to that land. But since they did not do this, the law stipulates that a ‘squatter’, that is Anambra State, has taken possession of that land and so is entitled to having legal certificate of occupancy from the Federal Land Registry. That is the law.

That is the legal way of settling that dispute. But I know people might scream at that. However, it is always advisable to settle matters out-of-court. Courts usually advocate and encourage this. Therefore the more pleasant route would be for the three States to sit and determine how they would share the resources; and nothing is wrong also in calling Enugu and Kogi States, ‘oil-producing states’ if that is what they want; if that is what would make them happy. I don’t advocate a ‘winner-takes-all’ in this matter. I say this because I foresee that the National Boundary Commission will definitely come up with a verdict that would not be pleasant to one of the contestants in this case. But an all-encompassing solution, as I have mentioned above, is to co-opt every contestant into the petroleum and refinery scene, thus making everybody happy at the end of the day.

Bobby, Bobby, Bobby my bros. Why do you talk like a fool? Are you saying that the Igbo will succumb to Igala? Is it the same mighty Igbo that fought and fended of Nigeria, including Igala, together with UK, Egypt, Sudan and Russia? My bros the wise to do is to sheathe your sward and pray that it does not come to that. You see the Hausa/Fulani herdsmen have slaughtered thousands of middle belters for years in their own home land and the people are so splintered to unit and fight back, how do you then think the Igala will be able to fight Igbo? This is a delusion. If it coms to that please let us know when your join the fight or are you just an empty vessel. Haba, my bros, pray for peace. I doubt you will have a share of the loot if Kogi prevails. Wabe will and the poor will die at war. Wake up

i sincerely don’t support majority of the comments here. if the land that the oil is discovered is in kogi state, what is wrong in kogi state claiming ownership. that you own a land and another man builds a house there does not make you lose ownership of the land. Are we saying that if the oil was actually found in Aguleri or Anam and the president now declares Kogi the owner that Anambra state will fold their hands or be hailing Mr. president for a job well done. To me i see orient petroleum as an investor and kogi state did not say that orient petroleum should not invest in their state. I strongly believe that if the national boundary commission will do their job diligently without fear or favour that the actual owners will very soon emerge. The truth of the matter is there are lots of oil deposits in Kogi, Anambra and Enugu state, the president should as a matter of urgency declare these 3 states oil producing states.

prince jimmy, Francis ekene, london boy, am surprise that in a civilized 21st century u talk this way. the national boundary commission is on ground to come up with full demarcation of the said area so i employ all of us to wait. secondly, kogi is a middle belt state and not a northern state as one of u claimed. you are only been childish by drumming for war, asked ur grand parents and they will tell u they dont want another civil war. wise up my brothers and lets embrace a united nigeria. shorebattery, i commend ur maturity on ur post. emeka anyaoku, alex ewueme and other notable and high profiled nigerians are on ground to contribute as unbiased umpires.

Heheheheh! Before the war starts, Anambra people should please ask from their brothers living in Agulere, Umulere and Utuocha about their ordeal in the hand of Ibaji People when similar attempt was made in the early 80s. Ibaji is a Lion and when lion is sleeping never you make an atempt of waking up the Lion.

ENUGU STATE MAY GO AND SLEEP AND STOP TELLING LIES WHILE KOGI WILL GO AND HUGE TRANSFORMER LET THIS TWO PEOPLE LEAVE WHAT WAS MEANT FOR ANAMBRA STATE ALONE.BUT I WILL ADVISE OLU PEOPLE NOT TO FORGET WHAT HAPPENED IN 1993,HOW WE DEALT WITH THEM AND WE ARE STILL READY FOR THEM,BECAUSE ALL THAT THEY KNOW WE KNOWS IT ALSO,SO IF THEY WERE STILL CLAIMING THE LAND,WHAT I PLEAD FROM GOVERNMENT IS JUST GIVE THE STATES RIGHT TO DRAG FOR THE LAND AND I PROMISE THAT WE WILL GAIN MORE LANDS FROM THEM.. JUST TOO UNGRATEFUL PEOPLE,DURING THIS TIME OF FLOOD DISASTER,WERE DID THY RAN TO,OF COURSE TO AGULERI AND WE GAVE ACCOMMODATION EVEN WHAT SOME GOOD NIGERIANS WERE BRINGING TO MY PEOPLE,WE SHARED IT AND GAVE TO THE IBAJI PEOPLE,AND NOW IDRIS WADA WHOM I KNOW THAT SINCE HIS WAS BORN THAT HE NEVER KNOW THIS AREA WAS CLAIMING WHAT IS BIGGER THAN HIM,WHEN ANAMBRA STATE WERE INVESTING IN THIS PROJECT WERE WAS KOGI AND ENUGU,NOW TIME TO BENEFIT HAVE COME AND BOTH STATES COMES OUT.YES IT TRUE THAT WE HAVE BOUNDARY WITH ENUGU AND KOGI BUT THIS OIL HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH THEIR LAND BECAUSE WE KNOW OUR BOUNDARY AND IF ENUGU DID NOT WANTS TO CORPORATE AS ONE IGBO,,,LET THEM BE READY TO FACE THE WAR BECAUSE WE ARE FROM ISRAEL IF YOU PEOPLE DID NOT KNOW AND WE NOT AFRAID OF THAT,LET ANAMBRA LEAVE THE TASK FOR US.

@ Ernest, no politics,compromise or any dialoqu on earth dat wud ever make hopeless Kogi Stat to benefit from Anambra resourses.We Anambrarian are ready to wipeout kogi out of this planet call earth.Useless pp. Dat ur useless Gov called Wada cannot reap where he did not sow.Enemy of progress.Founder of boko alam is from kogi,highway robbers is from there.Useless set of pp.

GOOD for Anambra to have built the Refinery but the State should tap her oil within her boundary to feed her refinery. It amazes one to read from an Anambra Professor talking about witchcraft in a matter that is purely scientific and provable. That is why in African magic the Igbos showcase only witchcraft, killing of brothers over land. DO NOT DARE THE IBAJIS AND THE IGALAS because you won’t see them to fight them. Does Odeke where the oil is found sound like an Anambra State name? Let the Witchcraft professor from Anambra answer.

This is crazy, you meant the Government and people of Anambra did not know that the land they build on was not theirs or what? I dont think the idea is good, if that land belongs to Kogi as claimed there must be an agreement between the 2 or 3 states, since there was no agreement it simple meant that the 2 other states wanted to show wickedness. I am not from the both states but I like calling a spade a spade. Pls let them tell us the truth because Anambra cannot spend this much money and others will come up and be major shareholders, it is not done that way. Pls for those of us raising angers of how they will crush others should know that we are one and with peace we can still be one.

I can’t say anything about Kogi people because I don’t know how they border Anambra state but for Enugu state we shouldn’t be in a haste to forget that Anambra and Enugu use to one state and most part of Ayamelum local govt in Anambra was carved out Uzor Uwani local govt of Enugu state and remember you may have built refinery in Aguleri but the oil wells or some of the oil wells in question might be located beyond Anambra border so you don’t just expect Enugu state to just fold their arms and nod their heads in affirmation, we must come to the round table and fix it, after all not too long ago Coal had been the major sources of Income,Electric and locomotive power,livelyhood to the Nation,I believe Enugu and Anambra can always settle their issues amicably as sister states

Emmanuel Omeh ,You are the only man who is making sense. We the Enugu are mot interested in your refiary, but out land and oil well. For God’s sake if the location is in Enugu land than your ranting or money spent is like Oliver the Couque once said you do not plant flower in another persons house
jorse

But the King did not say, and would have not imagined, that a person would watch you plant flower for years in his land without raising a whimper until the flower blooms. What sort of morons are on this forum for goodness sake. If Enugu and Kogi argue that the wells extend beyond the boundaries into their territories, then it would make some sense. But to say it is in their lands defies reason. By the way, are Enugu and Kogi also desputing the land between them or will that come later? What a mess. May all the oil dry up in Nigeria to save the people.

why are people so stupid and self centered?
The issue at hand goes beyond Kogi and Anambra States. The Boundary commission Staff are there to do their jobs and until then, we can now talk. The fact that Kaduna State has refinery does not make Kaduna an oil producing State. I weep for people who judge ignorantly and cowardly.

Reason and facts have to prevail on issues like this, rather than making careless statements. Nobody has told us clearly the position of Boundary Commission on the matter. If actually some of the wells are located in Kogi State, is not possible for the two states to reach an understanding to explore these reources for the benefit of the two states, Nigeria, and the world. If Shell can come from Denmark to explore oil in Nigeria, while is it not possible for Anambra State to explore oil in any part of Nigeria, provided they comply with the Laws of land. Kogi and Anambra please sit down and discuss. Your God given resources and the infrastructure already in place to explore it might be of benefit to your people. Be wise, and ignore the silly comments made by some ignorant people here.

Ibaji or wada or what ever is called should not remaind me the biafran war…u ppl are playin wit a tail of a tiger…where were u wen Anambra was lavishing her in d project nw u want eat d food ment 4 the king…beware! & i knw ibaji must be hausa tribe…if u dare to dat project we gonna give u a fuck!

dear anambrans,i dont know how many of you dat are talking go to school.you can open your mouth and abuse a state gov.becos of oil well.may god forgive you and you must repent.you the anambras caused war in nigeria i hope with dis your uttrances another war will not come up again?empty barrels makes hell of noise.

You bastard. You must be a comrade at idiocy. You definitely do not sound much asa scholar and you have the audacity to challenge the education of others. An offal like you personify what is wrong with this misfit called Nigeria. If you had a father he probably could have told you who started the war in “Nigeria.” To accuse the people of Anambra for starting a war depicts your idiocy indubitably. Gowon, your next door neighbor, who declared war on Biafra is hardly from Anambra. When the people of Biafra was being slaughtered in the North fool likes you mistook the pogrom for a done deal. Now your vacuous minds are at work again igniting and fanning the ambers of conflict and violence. That is why a union of people endowed with great minds and those mentally challenged is a grave error. Lugard did not know it. Just like you, Idoubt he ever read Plato’s works; or was he acting on self interest and aggrandizement. By the way I am neither from Anambra nor KOgi. Just an African committed to enlightening any that I can. I am afraid all indications are you may be impervious to reason. So I know I failed.

IT IS VERY SUPRISING THAT KOGI AND ENUGU STATES KEPT QUITE ALL THESE WHILE WHILE ANAMBRA INVESTED IN BUILDING A REFINERY AND SETTING AN OIL PLATFORMS IN THEIR STATES AND THEY KEPT QUITE NOT UNTILL PRESIDENT JONATHAN COMMISSIONS THE PROJECT AND CALLED ANAMBRA AN OIL PRODUCING STATE AND ALL OF A SUDDEN KOGI AND ENUGU STATES APPEARED FROM NOW WHERE LAYING OWNERSHIP CLAIMS TO THE OIL WELLS.
THIS WHOLE THING IS ALL ABOUT ENVY.
SIMPLE RESOLUTION OF THIS IBAJI OIL BLOCK LINKED TO ANAMBRA ORIENT REFINERY IS THAT ONCE THE BOUNDRY COMMISSION SAYS THE OIL WELL FALLS WITHIN KOGI STATE,ORIENT PETROLEUM SHOULD MOVE THEIR PLATFORM FROM KOGI STATE TO OTHER OIL WELLS RIGHT INSIDE ANAMBRA EAST LGA WHERE THEY ARE SO MANY SO THAT ANAMBRA STATE WILL AVIOD PROLONGED LEGAL TUSSLE AND WAR WITH KOGI STATE WHICH WILL KILL THAT REFINERY BY ANAMBRA STATE.SURELY EXPECT AGULERI WITH THEIR UMULERI BROTHERS FIGHING THE IGALA PEOPLE TO FINISH.
IGALA’S ARE GOOD FIGHERS BUT NOT TO COMPARE WITH AGULERI AND UMULERI WARRIORS.SURELY AGULERI WITH THEIR UMULERI BROTHERS WILL ROAST THE IGALA PEOPLE AND EVEN DEVASTATE THE ENTIRE KOGI STATE.
ORIENT REFINERY MUST ACT FAST BEFORE NIGERIA START WITNESSING ANOTHER SECURITY CHALLENGE.

I won’t say much,except that Kogi state should warned that there’s is only one thing u can’t cast at d teeth of. Umuleri and Aguleri boys, that thing is – COWARDiCE ! They. Have fought other pple’s war.Do u think they can’t fight theirs? Let alone when they have justice!

I use this oppurtunity to thank our Gov. Peter Obi for his foresight in every aspect of development. All heads are equal is for mouth, some are more equal than the others. Please tell these two Govs. to rest in their states if they don’t know what next to do to generate money for their state. It must not be oil money. Think fast.

Why is all this ibo guyz are commentin as if their tinkin tru anus? Some of u dont even knw d place in questn, u dont even knw weda d 2 govs hv 1nce has an agreemnt, wat make u pple tnk kogi dont knw wat is goin on at d site all this yrs? Obi said’ we will work togeda as states of the federatn’ no,no,no, notin like workin togeda here just park ur load from dat land b4 Igala pple leav cost on u and ur pple.

U ppl are cawords and by the time we start with u guys u will cee .we want the igbos to keep off now or they see there waterlo.so we kogi are redy to deal with u ibos like we did it during the war. We will sunk u like the baboo and the dunkey.idiots com and tak the oil.

look Ibaji u people are fools better leave us Aguleri alone before what happened in 1995 will repeat again you know how you people plead us in obelle u know that Aguleri is enyi mba and let me warn the people of ibaji to stay clear or there will all finished one night up till now you people are still taking flood refuge at Aguleri and we are feeding you people and you still get mouth to talk and i thank God that you people know that Aguleri is ever ready call all the Ariwa or Hausa people the oil is ours and even the laundry or with out boundary government know the truth if the government did not know the truth why will mr president come and commission this oil wells so koggi is better than federal govt so i want to tell the government to leave politics now because this will caurse war and there will regret it so govt will better prove the Anambra oil wells

Where was Igala pple when the oil explorers were working,now they woke up from sleep dragging the percentages to be paid to them.monkey they work baboon they chop Let me remind them of what happened during the civil war,We are closed neighnebours from centuries having inter marriages. But Hausa-Fulan living in desert deceived them during the war they followed them calling us nyamili.They were the foot soldiers known as the middle bellt that formed majority in the Nigerian Army,marched down to Igbo land shooting,bombing and shelling at civilian targets.This time around it will not be so,Pls go and explore your oil if u have any we are happy with u pple bicos we are inlaws,Don’t mind captain Idris he doesn’t know the geographical of the area nor visiit b4 this brouhaha sprug up if u depend on ur Bokoharam bomb don’t forget our war missile ogbunigwe ‘mass killer’s The Biafran reseachers are much around the corner.so take it easy I rest my case.

Anambra and Kogi ar neigbours,bt the pple of anambra should know dat kogi is nt claiming their plaform,what kogi is claiming is were the oil is being drilled from.so claiming ownersip of their oilwell does nt mean their platform,so think wisely Anambras.

@bobby i think u r a fool. just because ur from Kogi does not mean u begin to support evil. Kogi State and her governor was there when orient Petro. started the refinary project and you Kogi people did not talk, shout, cry, or make any form of noise or even put a court injuction to protst atleast. You just kept quiet. Now the food is ready, you want to come and eat. Greedy lazy fools. its going to purge all of u trying to bring problem to peace loving people of Anambra State. i know is not ordinary, i know u r being sponsored by those criminals in the North who r sponsoring Boko Haram, but u will all fail bcos Biafara is real. Kogi State losers!

People should pls learn how to comment on sensitive public issues like this. i believe that GEJ will look in to the dispute critically and profer solution to it. That why he urgently intervene and handed it over to the boundry adjustment commission. At the end of it all they will come up with meaningful resolution.

ANAMBRARIANS SHOULD UNDERSTAND THAT IF THEY BUILD REFINERY TO REFINE ANOTHER MANS OIL WITHOUT THE PERSONS CONSENT WILL CAUSE PROBLEM. LET THEM SETTLE MATTER AMICABLY. OWNERS OF OIL WELL ARE AUTOMATICALLY STAKE HOLDERS.

I don’t think this calls for a war at this stage. We war thoes of kogi state beating shouting war drums. After all, if happens, it wil be between Igbos and the north. North will not enjoy the simpathy of south west, egypt, saudi arabia, britain, russia etc. Don’t think it will look like nigeria-biafra war. So keep calm, remain quiet, let national boundary commision do their work.

The oil well in question is no where in the land of Enugu state and Kogi state, the oil well fund in Aguleri Otu, so if Enugu and Odeke are claiming the ownership of the land is very wrong for them to do that, it is 100% wickedness

IIbaji LGA although presently in Kogi state is supposed to be in Anambra State, considering historical,cultural, social orientations. It was the civil war that disrupted the group that formed to actualize the the merger of Ibaji with their kins and kits in Omambara area of the East then. I hope exhaustible crude oil will not destroy Inexhaustible good relationship for future generation

Funny, Must Nigerian blessings always be a curse? If I were God I will just dry up all the oil well in Nigeria so that people can wear their think cap and look for better way of creating wealth in Nigeria. people are already drawing their sword for a blood bath. No life has a duplicate. Be warened

GONE ARE THOSE DAYS WHEN KOGI STATE DONT HAVE EDUCATED GOVERNOR, NOW THEIR HAVE PRODUCE A GOVERNOR THAT IS EDUCATED, I THINK THEIR HAVE TO FIGHT 4 WHAT BELONGS TO THEM, GOVT. PETER OBI KNOWs THE TRUTH DATS THATS WHILE HE SAID WE CAN WORK TOGETHER AS A NATION, HE KNOW THAT THE OIL WELL BELONGS TO KOGI STATE, KOGI STATE IS SO BLESS WITH MINERAL RESOURCES, THEIR HAVE THE BEST LIMESTONE IN AFRICA At OBAJANA CEMENT, THE AJOKUTA IRON AND STEAL, NOW OIL, WOW! The 1st vice-president of Nigeria Dr. ALEX EKWUEME whats to used advantage of the Kogi people becos He know that their were not Educated by then, bros! MAKE UNA self CHECK AM NA, KOGI STATE GOVT. No fit walk up one day come the fight 4 Oil well, Kogi is so Blessed. AM HAPPY 4 THEM FOR THE OIL.

Who are the members of the boundary committee? What is their track record? Even the ordinary man in Akwaibon state knows that what the 76 oil well de decemated to them belongs to cross river state. Where were the committee when nig lost bakassi to cameroon? What are u actually expecting from this people. Obi is a man of intergrity and he will not give them a dim for bribe just like imoke of cross river didnt. U can now tell their report when d northern states are already sponsoring these ibaji claims incase of possible disintergration…am very surprise GEJ cud not see the handwriting on the wall. This may be the more sensitive than any could see. But we saw this long ago. I smell blood but then we have one only way…let other states that claim the patrimony of the oil well, labour from d scratch and develop their. Anambra and federal government should continue to havest from ‘ALL’ refirnery built by orient, until other states will get enough work done to annex oil producing states’ tag to them. Nothing just cud come from any committee, u can quote me. If not for anything, let it be a reward for hardwork, so dat nig.electorate can vote people with vision into power.

But then, my greatest worry is that nig.never learns from history. The committee will aggravate the matter. 1924 is so long a date to reconcile boundaries… The drum of war is set and nothing but my earlier post cud attenuate the tension as it is now. Take it Gej or u rue it. U can get access to my contact( [email protected]) and i can tell u authoritatively that the politics behind this was hatched along time ago. Dont allow this to get envolve into another security situation, u ve got alot on ur desk already. I love nig and i wunt like the US prediction to come to light under ur watch. Long live Nig.

It will be very disastrious if kogi want to try igbo’s capabities in the name of oil well. let me tell wada, if he doesn’t want himself and his people to run to sokoto he should quietly go and sit down to avoid elimination of his people in the name oil welll. Am from Enugu but i will follow to fight this with the last of my blood if they dare to step into igbo land again

All of u agulerian are stupid for rubbishing all Kogi state indegines .Just makin stupid comment over oil dat will soon dry up , go and note it down today dat yeye oil will dry up ,den l want to see wat u will fight over again, idiot set of poeple.

I’ve taken time to read comments but my submission is that most Igbo people lack decorum, sense of approach and foresight. Consequense has no meaning in Igbo lang. Lastly, most igbo man has his whole senses in his mouth it is a pity. Even a fool can predict what igbo man will do in 2015 they talk anyhow, write anyhow, to anybody including their percived elders. It is pathetic. Empty boast!

Most commenters here are Igbos and they are carried away by their usual ‘inordinate money-monger’ sentiment. Let the Boundary Commission do a good work and come out with results and Nigerians would be shocked to know who the true owners of the land are. These senseless comments should stop. And if Anambra people feel they are good on battle field, well let them try it their kidnappers boys.

Most commenters here are Igbos and they are carried away by their usual ‘inordinate money-monger’ sentiment. Let the Boundary Commission do a good work and come out with results and Nigerians would be shocked to know who the true owners of the land are. These senseless comments should stop. And if Anambra people feel they are good on battle field, well let them try it their kidnappers boys. I am proud to be a Yoruba man, the most civilised tribe in Africa.

HAHAHA AFTER ANAMBRA HAS FINISH BUILDING THERE REFINERY,THEN KOGI SAYS THAT IT IS THERE OWN..WONDERS SHALL NEVER END IN THIS COUNTRY CALLED NIGERIA..WE WERE THESE SELFISH AND STUPID PEOPLE ALL THESE YEARS THIS REFINERY WAS GOING ON?OR DID ANAMBRA PEOPLE BUILD THIS REFINERY OVER NITE AND KOGI STATE JUST WAKE UP IN THE MORNING TO SEE IT IN THERE LAND ..THIS IS THE ONLY QUESTION THAT NEEDS ANSWERS HERE…..IS TIME WE SHOULD ALLOW A SLEEPING LION TO SLEEP

kogi, people should just try and do something else fighting Anambra u are fighting the whole igbo’s in general, so they should not bring fight matter becos they will all run out of kogi state. it is now they are claiming what does not belong to them, so when Anambra where building and structuring the oil well they where sleeping. its now they are claiming land. Abeg make una talk something else.

the north has always been parasitic.but this time around they are unlucky that they do not have their brother in power in aso rock to swing the case their way.blood sucking parasites.and @ ayodele ,i can only call you the name that best describes your lot,a fool!!

Na waa o, National boundary commision in Anambra land ? I know it wil b like dat bcos d Igbos are involved, soon oil wil be discovered in odo river basin and may be Benue state govt wil lay claim to it. Igbos shld wise up and know dat they are nt accepted in Nigeria. Nigeria shld brace up and allow Igbos to go than all this political abracadabra they are doing with IGBO NATION. Lastly if being of jewish blood is a problem to other tribes in Nigeria they shld pls tel the igbos where they came from if nt of jewish origin.

infact kogi ple have irritate me let settle dis matte with war where is kogi during biafran/nigerian civil war that lasted for three years is there any ple like igala only nzogbu nzogbu enyimba enyi kogi ple will join their northern counter part. it pain me for the nonsence uttered by illiterate ple who are trying to make kogi loveable place. They are ignoramus boko haram ganstar to table their tales by moonlight archaic story of igala ples. By nomenclature those impostors are taking the opportunity of anambrarians in arm forces police and army and other in the name of anambra west *anambra ple shine ur eye well well for this hausa/igala archaic political turncoat look at their live with their trans northernic islamitic fetish outlook

infact kogi ple have irritate me let settle dis matter with war where is kogi during biafran/nigerian civil war that lasted for three years is there any ple like igala only nzogbu nzogbu enyimba enyi kogi ple will join their northern counter part. it pain me for the nonsence uttered by illiterate ple who are trying to make kogi loveable place. They are ignoramus boko haram ganstar to table their tales by moonlight archaic story of igala ples. By nomenclature those impostors are taking the opportunity of anambrarians in arm forces police and army and other in the name of anambra west *anambra ple shine ur eye well well for this hausa/igala archaic political turncoat look at their live with their trans northernic islamitic fetish outlook

infact kogi ple have irritate me let settle dis matter with war where is kogi during biafran/nigerian civil war that lasted for three years is there any ple like igala only nzogbu nzogbu enyimba enyi kogi ple will join their northern counter part. it pain me for the nonsence uttered by illiterate ple who are trying to make kogi loveable place. They are ignoramus boko haram ganstar to table their tales by moonlight archaic story of igala ples. By nomenclature those impostors are taking the opportunity of anambrarians in arm forces police and army and others in the name of anambra west *anambra ple shine ur eye well well for this hausa/igala archaic political turncoat look at their live with their trans northernic islamitic fetish outlook

@emeka go and look ur akara head for mirror b4 talkin of war wit ur smellin mouth, u dont even knw history, i dont knw y some pple just come here talkn ru…..bish. Shot up if u dont knw history or wat to said. The whole Nigerins knw dat ibos are tifs, so, pls stop strugling. Yeye… U want to go and kinap pple oil the way u are doing over your state. Pls Mr obi we dont want to work together as a states of the nation, no, CAPITAL ‘NO’ leav kogi oil wells alone only den u and ur pple can have peace.

Hahahahahahahahahaha! Heeeeeeeiii! So the abokis of Boko haram extractions can now use the western social network media to express their views and opinions? Although in half baked and incomprehensible grammar. Hmm! So western cultures and education are no longer evil? Bunch of archaic stark illitrates and animals of the highest order. Bats! I am not Igbo but i pity you when it sets between you and the Igbos. Remember that gowon thought that Nigerian/Biafran war ends in 3months but to his amazement, the war lasted for a whole 3yrs and still the Igbo make up to 40’/. of the country’s population today. So i suggest that you better advice your misinformed selfish governor to save you from being annihilated from the land by this great tribe of Israel.

Govt. Obi leave Kogi oil well for them, we dont want to work as a state of Nation, No No No No No No, Kogi have produce a Governor Dat is Educated, is time 2 re- Claim all the stolling properties back. Take back ur refineary and leave Kogi oil Well 4 them. I hate cheat, see igbo man sense, Govt. Obi pack your load and go, anabara pack ur load and go.

Calling Governor Idris Wada a thief is uncalled for come to think of it real who is the thief in this scenario I guest is the Ibos.

The numbers of Ibos living in Igala is uncountable what are you all looking ???????? If one thousand armed robbers are killed in Nigeria today 900 of them are Ibos. If you go to foreign prison where Nigeria has diplomatic relationship nine out of ten Nigerians in detention for various crime are Ibos you can hardly find any Igala man in the above crime both in Nigeria and abroad.